Author: Erin Klitzke

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June gaming element challenge – Keys of Power: The Engineer’s Key

Item Type: Artifact

This light gray key almost looks like steel, though it’s far lighter.  It is a key of skills, seeming to unlock the talents of those already gifted in the mechanical arts.  Stories have the few suspected bearers of this key building the first steam engines and designing great structures that have stood against the very worst storms and disasters large and small.  It is an artifact of great power and responsibility, for once the technological genie is out of the bottle, how does one control it?

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June gaming element challenge – Keys of Power: Libraes

Item Type: Artifact

This key is made of a vibrant Imperial purple gemstone in a simple, almost delicate design. It is unadorned except for the wheel-shaped ring at the end of the key. Libraes is said to be the key of balance, of centering, and of wise counsel. Legends say that when the counsel of past carriers of this key was not heeded, the end result was disastrous.

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June gaming element challenge – Keys of Power: The Gatekeeper’s Key

Item Type: Artifact

The keys of power are drawn and bound to particular carriers.

The Gatekeeper’s Key is a black moonstone key with silver veining that seems to have the power over life and death.  Tales also have it being known as the Assassin’s Key or Silentus’ Key.  A very few stories have it listed as Shadowen’s Key, but these do not seem to fit the tales of the man known as Shadowen.  Most refer to it as the Gatekeeper’s Key for various reasons, amongst them a particular tale that seems to indicate that the key’s true power is to open or close the gateway to the world beyond, to the heavens or the flames of the Hells.  It has been passed down the generations of a single family for at least the last five hundred years.

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June gaming element challenge – Arcadius

Item Type: Deity

Arcadius – God of the earth

Arcadius, god of the earth, is often forgotten in the worship of those living in the “civilized” world.  The continent of Arcadia is sacred to him.
In truth, the elves largely worship the pairing of Immeria and Arcadius as the Goddess and God, the Divine Equals.  Many of the shrines and ruins in the wilds of Arcadia bear strong elven architectural features and were in fact crafted thousands of years ago by a combination of humans and elves that once lived on the massive continent).

Principle organizations: Kami no Kyoudai (Brothers Divine)

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June gaming element challenge – Immeria

Item Type: Deity

Immeria – Goddess of the Sea

Immeria is the goddess sailors pray and sacrifice to, but only rarely, as much of Maraeternum are fairly irreligious in practice, though the belief is strong—enough sailors have seen her power at work to know that she is still a force in the world.  A shrine to the pale-haired goddess exists in every major port, usually tended by either a member of the Sorores Maritimae or the Kami no Kyoudai.  The Immersea is said to be sacred to her.

Principle organizations: Sorores Maritimae (Sisters Maritime), Kami no Kyoudai (Brothers Divine)